The out-pouring of support on this list for gay marriage in Minneapolis, however, brought a smile to my face. The additional comments about how much $ San Francisco is taking in for marriage license fees (not to count hotel rooms, etc.) just made the smiler broader.
I doubt R.T. is waiting for my personal ok, but I say go for it! It'd be a great way to put our fair city on the map.
Jim McGuire Como
----Original Message Follows---- From: Tim Bonham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: mpls-issues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Mpls] Get Me to the Church on Time Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:28:39 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> How does this relate to Minneapolis? Maybe it doesn't, but if Rybak did
> attempt to follow San Francisco's lead, there would be long lines of the
> queer betrothed at city hall here, too.
>
Sounds like a good idea to me.
-Doug Mann, King Field
And to echo what Wally Swan, President of the Mpls Board of Estimate & Taxation told me last weekend, San Francisco is collecting about $80,000/day in extra marriage license fees from the City Clerks office. Or about 2 years worth of their normal license income in just the past few days. To say nothing of the extra hotel rooms rented, meals eaten in city restaurants, etc. Quite a mini-economic boom for San Francisco.
Think what Minneapolis could do with an extra $80,000/day income. Have libraries open more than half the day. Close a few less schools. Actually snow plow the alleys. Etc.
Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish Ericsson
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